eimarra | WFC

Names mentioned here are just the ones that caught my eye; I have no desire or intent to malign those not mentioned. I'll try to go back through and link to LJs for those that I know of. I'm open to input on conflicts, things I might consider instead, or things that may not be as good as I think. This is the list of things I intend to, or would like to, attend at WFC.

Scheduling for World Fantasy

I arrive in Wisconsin on Wednesday; that's my day with my brother and his family. WFC fun begins Thursday.

Thursday
2-3 "Gender-Bending Fantasy" panel

3-4 "Medicine for Writers" panel

4-5 "The State of Fantasy & Horror" panel (This is a maybe for me.)

(break for dinner)

7-8 "Working on Your Craft: Writing as an Evolving Process (1)" panel
(the name that caught me, quite aside from the description of the panel, is L.E. Modesitt, Jr.)

8-9 "The Bathroom: Necessities of World-Building" panel
(Elizabeth Bear [

matociquala], Patricia Bray [

pbray], Charles Coleman Finlay [

ccfinlay]. . . )

10-11 "The Kitchen: Food in Fantasy" panel
(panel includes Esther Friesner, Ellen Kushner, others)

Friday

10-11 a.m. "The Bedroom, or What's This Sex Scene Doing in My Fantasy?" panel
(with Teresa Nielsen Hayden and others)

11-noon "Good vs. Evil: Philosophy in Fantasy" panel

noon-1 p.m. "Images of Women in Fantasy Literature" panel

1-2:30
"The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror" panel
or
"Fantastic Houses" panel

2:30-4 "Adapting the Brothers Grimm & Other Fairy Tales" panel
(with David Drake, Jane Yolen, and Terri Windling! and others)

(I'm also tempted by the "Beyond Folk Music" panel at the same time.)

4-5:30
"Really Good Really Bad Guys" panel
(Stephen R. Donaldson, Joe Haldeman, J. Ardian Lee, John M. Ford, and Gene Wolfe)
or
"Fantasy in Unexpected Places" panel
(including Kelly Link and Jeff VanderMeer)
or
5-5:30 reading by Esther Friesner

(break for dinner)

8-10:30 autograph reception

Saturday
10-11 a.m. "Working on Your Craft: Writing as an Evolving Process (2)" panel
(panel includes Ellen Kushner, Patricia McKillip, Gene Wolfe, a couple others)
(which is opposite a reading by Jane Yolen :( )

noon-1 p.m. "Mining Other Cultures" panel

1-2:30 Talking with Terri Windling (interviewed by Charles de Lint)

2:30-4
"The Reader: Foundation of Fantasy" panel
or
readings by John M. Ford and Kelly Link

8-9 "A Maze Demands a Minotaur" panel
(Patricia Bray, David D. Levine)

9-11 Small Press Roundtable
or
9-10 "Other Forms of Storytelling" panel
(games, etc. -- panel includes Matt Forbeck and Michael A. Stackpole, both of whom I met at Origins a couple years back, though they won't remember me, I'm sure.)
10-11 "The Thing in the Basement" panel (just what I need before heading off to sleep!) (panel includes Laura Anne Gilman)

Sunday

10-11 a.m. "The Romance of Ruins" panel
(Esther Friesner is on the panel.)
or
readings by Patricia McKillip and Elizabeth Bear

11-noon "Wee Folk, Good Folk" panel
(panel includes Susanna Clarke and Terri Windling, among others)

1-4 World Fantasy Awards Banquet (paid for this when I registered)

4-5 The Judges' Panel